Of Interest Quotes

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Anything simple always interests me.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.